Week 2

Nothing extreme has happened so far, but in some ways I think that shows just how easily I settled into life in Oslo. Its still strange to me in many ways to be living out here, but I guess student life here is never going to be the same experience as student life in Lincoln. That being said it feels normal being here now, going to class each day and I think I owe a lot of that to the girls in my class and how quickly they accepted me and took me in as one of their own. The comment has been passed more than once that I’m now officially in the group and that means more than realise to me. So far my only issues are that I cant find Nutella but I’m ready to try the local version and shopping in general is expensive but I’ll make it work.

One thing I have realised is that being a jazz dancer probably isn’t one of my strengths but I’m improving slowly. I still enjoy the class but it does frustrate me a little bit when I don’t get it, that being said something clicked in the last class we had this week so hopefully it’ll get easier. The contemporary sessions are brilliant they’re challenging, so I feel like I’m being pushed to my potential and I feel like I’m coming away from each class with something new. We’ve been looking at Graham and contact improvisation, I’m particularly thankful for another semester studying contact so that I can define the skills we learnt last semester with a different group of people with new ways of moving. As well as having another chance to push past my apprehension for lifting other dancers.